Absolutely against selling him and want to see the best young players turn out for us.

The "only a right back" bit is an oversimplification given the injuries and inconsistencies in the rest of the back four and the pace he brings.

His attacking game needs work but defensively he's a beast of a player. How many times de he appear last season when we looked certain to concede ?

£50 mil might buy us a couple of promising players from the Championship or a Benteke type to replace one of the best defenders in the Premier League. No ta.

His sale would badly diminish our chances of staying in the league IMO.

Burn

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

Had it occurred to you that the money might not in the accounts because it is part of other interests owned by the shareholders.

The Sun report that we’ve slapped a 70m rating on him whilst Leroy Sane is valued at £50n. As good as AWB is, he’s not £70m and I can see us agreeing to £45-£48m with £5-£7m more should he make an England appearance, play X amount of games for United etc

Edited by Bekken (15 Jun 2019 12.10am)

Which is a fair point. I was just getting angry at certain other comments assuming we have infinite money simply by being in the PL and refusing to acknowledge that we will need to sell from time to time

Then you got angry about something that no one said mister accountant.

Of course players get sold. It's when they should be sold that is the issue.
No way should Palace be pressured into selling AWB at this stage in his career or contract unless we are offered an absurdly large amount of money.
Personally, I believe that the player is worth far more to us on the field, as is Zaha.

According to Sky Sports, via the BBC site this morning, AWB would favour a move to Man U but isn’t pushing for a move which is pretty much what he said a month ago. Who knows? Unlikely as it sounds maybe he’s happy to stay for his whole career.

I agree with Hrolf it’d be a bad decision to lose him too soon for two reasons: it’s a pleasure seeing him play for Palace and selling Kenny Sansom seemed to upset the team at the time. Not to compare them but good full backs aren’t easily replaced.

Full backs are much much much easier to replace than strikers or attacking central midfielders which is an obvious problem area for us.

COYP

We made a loss of £33,340,000 last year (2018 accounts)

We have about £17m cash in bank and £10m owed to us in debtors.

We have creditors of £134m including an advance of £29m from future premier league money

Our biggest problem is when a club buys a player the cost is amortised over the length of the players contract, so a £40m player on 4 year contract means we pay £10m a year for next 4 years on accounts.

When we sell a player the full amount is recognised in the accounts the year of the sale.

So when we sold Bolasie, Gayle, Jedi etc we brought in £45 and bought £92m of players but due to amortisation, we showed an EBITDA of £11m in 2017.

Without selling players every now and then we will not post any profits at all and will rely on being bank rolled by owners/loans.

*I will caveat this with I am not an accountant, I merely have a very basic understanding of accounts and the above could be wrong. Happy to be corrected on any of it.

Edited by JohnB (15 Jun 2019 10.37am)

Dominic Fifield now reposting on the proposed transfer of AWB so I now give credence to the story.
If it happens I will be sorry as right back is one position where we can claim he is genuinely one of the best in the country and it has been a delight to see his astonishing progress.
Some will argue that at least we would be selling on our terms and we are not actively seeking to sell him.
But for me it would be another case of the top clubs hoovering up talent after little less than a year with the club where they were developed.
Man Utd have also bought James and are now strongly linked with Longstaff from Newcastle.
I hoped, perhaps naively, that we could buck the trend.